Luke 11:46

and he said, 'And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

Young's Literal Translation

In The King James Version

And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

In Context

45And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, 'Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

47'Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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Cross References

Isaiah 10:1Woe [to] those decreeing decrees of iniquity, And writers who have prescribed perverseness.

Matthew 23:2saying, 'On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

Luke 11:52'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54

Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →

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